Connected MCU Lab Workshop in Turkey

A NEW APPROACH TO TEACHING MICROCONTROLLERS & IoT SYSTEMS！

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Microcontrollers are a vital business in Turkey! They are the heart of many products that are designed here. Sadly the courses taken by Electronics “EE” students are not well aligned with industry practice. The world has rapidly moved to 32 bit MCUs, yet most students are still using MSP430, 8051, 6805, and other 8 bit MCUs. We believe that you should start your students with the type of MCUs that they will use in industry, and that means 32 bit! This course makes it easy to do that.

FREE HARDWARE & TEACHING MATERIALS FOR PARTICIPANTS!The Connected Microcontroller (MCU) Labis a semester-long course that provides everything you need to teach the basics of modern MCUs and to create an IoT system for your undergraduates. It’s the starting point, taking students through the basic microcontroller and I/O features, through real-time operating system concepts and advanced processor architecture, and finally into the principles of cloud connectivity. Using the open-source Creator IoT Framework, students can look at data in the cloud and remotely access the MCU node. Students taking this course will be empowered to develop their own projects and deepen their understanding.

The platform is the Digilent chipKIT™ Wi-FIRE board that uses the Microchip the PIC32 MCU. It’s powerful, with excellent expansion and connectivity. This is the right kind of hardware for repeated lab-use, and for student projects.

The first 30 teachers who register and then complete the full one-day workshop will be given a complete set of hardware to take away.

The software tools are Microchip’s MPLAB X IDE: free to download, well documented, and fully supported. The teaching materials are provided in editable formats to facilitate adaptation, available now in English and soon in Chinese, Russian and Spanish. More details here

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? This is a “Train the Trainer” event. If you teach MCUs this workshop will help you greatly! It’s also open to post-grads who are building projects, but places are limited. Give us a day of your time and we will equip you well: the materials you need and how to use them!

For more information or enquiries, please visit our University Programme Page or IUP Forum.The IUP Team will be on-hand to discuss your interests. To stay in touch, please register for the Imagination University Programme here

You are invited to please circulate this workshop to academic friends and colleagues…